G’day, I’m Steve Truman the founder of Agmates.
Thanks for taking the time to find out a bit more about Agmates.
Agmates is short for Agricultural Mates and we are Australia’s fastest growing online rural community.
Why Agmates?
Frustrated by the Multi-national $14.5 billion dollar Fairfax Media / Rural Press strangle hold over what rural & regional people read & see I launched Agmates as an online rural & regional news & commentary blog site in January 2006.
To my amazement “Agmates” was instantly popular with the email subscription growing to over 4,300 subscribers within 12 months.
Our Agmates AgNews is independent & free news and commentary written by rural people-for-rural people. Agmates AgNews allows farmers & people living in rural & regional areas to have their say.
Membership growth has been by referral only. We did try advertising with the $14.5billion dollar Rural Press News Papers but after just 3 weeks of paid advertising we were ‘banned’ by their management. I was told ‘ management has decided we will no longer accept Agmates advertising as we see you as competition’.
Our growth has been by word of mouth as our loyal members phone & email their friends, inviting them to join us in the community. If your not a member yet, please accept this a personal invitation from me to join us in our online community.
To join just Click on the Register Tab at the top and complete the registration form. It’s free to join, there’s no membership fees.
If you live outside of Australia you can join by using the Subscribe To Mailing List icon at the top of this page.
Agmates Trader allows Farmers / Rural & Regional Businesses to market everything rural be it livestock, machinery, rural real estate, hay / grain / fodder, agistment, and jobs directly to the rural community.
If you value having a truly independent Rural & Regional Media please support us with some of your advertising money instead of just giving it all to the $14.5 billion dollar Multi-national Fairfax Media / Rural Press empire.
Our ads are extremely good value for money. They reach an entirely targeted and growing loyal rural market. To advertise , just register as a member and then click on the SELL tab and build your own ad online.
Agmates charges a small fee for 30 day ads. We don’t charge commission and give you huge rural coverage.
So welcome aboard for the wild and exciting ride. Please support freedom of the press and free speech by becoming a contributor and secondly by using the Agmates Trader site to market all of your rural business - production - Livestock - machinery - real estate, etc.
If you have any questions / comments / suggestions please use the Contact Us link at the bottom of any page. I’d enjoy hearing from you.
Steve Truman
Founder - Agmates Rural Online Community